Out
of 175 million computers comes a laundry list of toxins including
650 million pounds of lead, 987,000 pounds of cadmium and
231,000 pounds of mercury. (Florida Environmental Report,
2001)

Each CRT
(Cathode-Ray Tube) contains four to six pounds of lead. (New
York Times, November 23, 2000)

Between
year 2000 and 2007, ...500 million personal computers became
obsolete. In 1998 alone, 20 million computers were taken out
of service, only 2.3 million were recycled." (New York
Times, November 23, 2000)